{"id":835610,"date":"2024-07-22T09:31:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T04:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=835610"},"modified":"2024-07-22T09:43:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T04:13:25","slug":"edtech-firms-founder-byju-raveendran-faces-reckoning-as-startup-implodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/22\/edtech-firms-founder-byju-raveendran-faces-reckoning-as-startup-implodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Edtech firm&#8217;s founder Byju Raveendran faces reckoning as startup implodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Byju Raveendran, an Indian mathematics whiz who soared from teacher to startup billionaire before his education-technology company imploded this year, now faces his biggest test. <\/p>\n<p>The future of Raveendran&#8217;s eponymous Byju&#8217;s online coaching firm rests with India&#8217;s courts after the county&#8217;s biggest startup, once loved by global investors who valued it at $22 billion, crashed below $2 billion in valuation. The 44-year-old founder last week lost control of the company as a tribunal kick-started an insolvency process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byju Raveendran, an Indian mathematics whiz who soared from teacher to startup billionaire before his education-technology company imploded this year, now faces his biggest test. The future of Raveendran&#8217;s eponymous Byju&#8217;s online coaching firm rests with India&#8217;s courts after the county&#8217;s biggest startup, once loved by global investors who valued it at $22 billion, crashed below $2 billion in valuation. The 44-year-old founder last week lost control of the company as a tribunal kick-started an insolvency process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}